A magistrate has ordered eight girls from Pakistan flown into the country as cultural dancers be kept in a safe house to enable police establish whether they are victims of human trafficking.
Senior principal magistrate Kennedy Cheruiyot sitting at the Milimani law courts gave the order after being furnished with special permits issued to the eight foreign girls by the Cabinet Secretary Sports , Culture and Heritage Mr Rashid Echesa Mohammed.
Defence lawyer Evans Ondieki told Mr Cheruiyot that the eight girls who were arrested at Balle Balle Club in Parklands “ are in the country legally with full permission of CS Echesa.”
Defence lawyer Evans Ondieki told Mr Cheruiyot that the eight girls, who were arrested at Balle Balle Club at Parklands on January 1, “are in the country legally with the full permission of CS Echesa”.
Mr Ondieki said the cultural dancers were allowed to enter into the country by Mr Echesa to promote trans-national cultures.
Human Trafficking & Enslavement are international crimes under Article 7 of Rome Statute. It’s also a Federal Offence in USA. Sports CS Rashid Echesa has on his motion invited International Criminal Court (ICC) On himself … His village career will end in the global stage.
— Donald B Kipkorir (@DonaldBKipkorir) January 5, 2019
This is abuse of office. Gross misconduct. CS Rashid Echesa smuggled Pakistan women to sleep with in Nairobi while he claims it is a cultural exchange. Does that exchange occur at Rashid’s house and a club? Or it was saliva exchange? A Cabinet minister in Human trafficking? Nkt pic.twitter.com/YKqamjhT74
— Lord Abraham Mutai (@ItsMutai) January 5, 2019
The lawyer pleaded with the magistrate to release the girls to be detained in a safe house where police can access them whenever they want as they investigate the owner of the club, who flew them into Kenya.